I can now see why Paul uses running as an analogy throughout his letters in the Bible - yes today was the day of the 10K a race that I had spent nearly 2 weeks preparing for and which was an achievement but a hard one.

It was a good race the first lap was quite a fast pace around the 30 minute mark, during the second lap I died on the hill but was able to pull myself together after some water (thanks Josh!) to run a very fast last 1000m and to get a good sprint at the end. It took me around 64 minutes in the end and I was very prud to get across the finish line and get my Graham Sykes Exmouth 10K drinks bottle!

The last couple of days have been good - my dad came down to Exmouth with me (to run the race and for a bit of a holiday). On Friday we wet to Lyme Regis for the day - the weather was lovely though it was very busy obviously a lot of people around for their holiday. On Saturday we went to the beach with Josh and David and did some swimming and stuff (and I got a bit red), then I had my 20th birthday party on the saturday afternoon - a barbecue on the Maer which was really cool - it was nice to celebrate with my friends. We then went to see 'the day after tomorrow' which was a fantastic film before crashing out!

Talking of crashing out that's what I'm going to go and do!

Run the race to win and finish way...